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We are an ecological landscape company serving northern Butte and southern Tehama counties in beautiful Northern California.
  GAIA CREATIONS          Ecological Landscaping
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The ELA is a nonprofit organization of dedicated landscape professionals, individual gardeners, educators, and more who are committed to educating themselves and others about ecological landscaping.  Visit on the web at www.ecolandscaping.org
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GARDEN DIVERSITY

Over 300 different species of plants thrive on this 1/3 acre property in N. California.  4 humans, 2 dogs, insects, birds, lizards, even moles co-exist in harmony within these gardens.  Next animal needed: CHICKENS! 
Expected yield this season is approx. 1000 lbs!

Plants Shown in Picture:

10-30 year old fruit trees/vines: apple, fig,                              pomegranates, almond, grape, pepper, pecan
3 Sisters Spiral + clover: Sweet corn, 7 types squash            (spaghetti, 3 types pumpkin, yellow crookneck,                      scallopini, zucchini) and 2 types pole beans
Elderberry with grape vine
Potatoes interplanted with Yin Yang and Blue Lake bush beans and Nasturtiums: 6 varieties potatoes                planted vertically; purple, red, Yukon gold, yellow                 Finn, banana fingerling and russet
Scarlet Runner bean Phaseolus coccineus
Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium purpureum
Costmary Tanacetum balsamita
Garden Sage Salvia offincinalis
Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
English Lavender Lavandula angustifolia

**Not shown but growing lower are chives, calendula, wooly and creeping thyme, oregano, feverfew and nasturtiums

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Order is found in things working beneficially together.  It is not the forced condition of neatness, tidiness, and straightness all of which are, in design or energy terms, disordered.  True order may lie in apparent confusion; it is the acid test of entropic order to test the system for yield.  If it consumes energy beyond product, it is in disorder.  If it produces energy to or beyond consumption, it is ordered.

-Bill Mollison Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
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THREE SISTERS GUILD

This ancient system of growing corn, beans and squash illustrates how companion planting has been practiced with much success over the ages.  Native American peoples planted them in different patterns depending on what region they lived in but overall the inspiration is based on Mother Nature.  The method draws upon nature’s cycle of nutrients and flow of energy to create growing conditions that favor all three plants throughout their lifecycle. 

The corn provide vertical support the pole beans require to climb as well as a little shade for the squash.  The squash shades the ground for the corn allowing moisture to remain in the soil longer.  The pole beans provide nitrogen fertilizer by absorbing nitrogen from the air and converting to soluble nitrate in the soil.  Microscopic nitrogen fixing bacteria live in small, often visible, nodules on the roots of legume plants (like beans and peas) enhancing the plants ability to absorb nitrogen.

How Native American peoples knew this I don’t know but they seemed to know a lot more about living sustainably than we do today.  For more information about this planting Guild contact us today!




Note: Fertilized by nature only!To print this image go to PermaGaia webpage of our website!
We planted pole beans that have grown year after year in our gardens. This variety is a black little bean; delicious small and steamed in pod or pod-dried then boiled with Chili or soups.We tried summer squash and winter squash this year and have had much success harvesting scaloppini, yellow crookneck, zucchini and patty pan summer squash. The spaghetti squash and pumpkins will come this fall.